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Political secretary of the Georgian Party Erosi
Kitsmarishvili said he was surprised with the “strange” statements of
the director general of the TV-Company “Maestro” Kakha Bekauri. He
blamed Kitsmarishvili in the oppression on him to change editorial
policy of the TV-Company.

What is the Batumi budget spent on and what information
the residents have on it, whether or not they agree with such spending
– this is the short list of questions that the Human Rights Center
asked Batumi residents. The majority of our respondents do not have
information on budget amount and its spending. People are indifferent –
many do not show interest in the state budget spending.

In the evening of December 25, an incident occurred in
the Shuamta Restaurant. Several people physically assaulted the
chairman of Akhmeta municipal board Aleksandre Mailashvili, district
deputy governor Davit Doijashvili, head of office at the district
administration Iveri Tsitelauri and commissary of the Khalatsani
village Zaza Guneshashvili.

Chairman of the Gori municipal board Zviad Khmaladze
assigned the 14-hectare square to the Trading Center Ltd under lease
agreement. The instruction was approved by the municipal board at the
final session of 2010.

After Dimitry Shashkin moved from the position of the
Minister of Probation and Penitentiary to the position of the Minister
of Education and Science, the society had controversial reaction.
Nowadays, due to the decisions and reforms of this person, most part of
the society thinks that he still acts as a minister of probation and
penitentiary and rules the education system with police methods.

After the armed conflict in August the district administrations in Shida Kartli region spent huge funds on their PR campaign in media-outlets. The Human Rights Center already wrote that the PR campaign was the priority of the local authorities in Shida Kartlu region and they mostly wasted budget funds on it:

Ministry of Education and Science and Ministry of Internal Affairs announced competition in public schools – “I Love My Police.” The winners were nominated on December 22 and received computers and other prizes. The humanrights.ge interviewed the head of the legal department of the independent Trade Union of Teachers “Ertoba” Davit Tsikarishvili with regard to the competition.

In accordance to the state strategy about IDPs, in spring of 2011 about
30 000 IDPs will be settled in the territory of Maltakva, in Poti. The
IDP families will be resettled to Poti from various regions of the
Western Georgia. It is unclear what measures the government will take
to prevent worsening of the economical situation of the IDPs by mass
resettlement.

According to the #89 decree of Minster of Corrections and Legal Assistance, if the lawyer wants to meet with several prisoners in the penitentiary department, he/she needs to stand in the line for every meeting. According to the public defender, this might endanger the constitutionally established right of the convict to ask for lawyer’s assistance without delay.

Resident of Ergneti village in Gori district Ramin Jokhadze was selling “fuel gas” in the territory of the Ltd “Georgia 21”. The company belongs to the deputy chairman of the municipal board Temur Khachiuri. After Zurab Arsoshvili occupied the position of the Shida Kartli regional governor, he got interested in Temur Khachiuri’s business.

In the village Kheta of Khobi municipality, in the former building of technical college, forty families of IDPs from Abkhazia have been accommodated. For six months, they have not been provided with water and have been carrying unhealthy water from the well. Several times, children got poisoned. The IDPs are talking about the unduly conducted rehabilitation works. Their houses do not have chimneys, thus they do not have heating system.

Bakurtsikhe, Lesichine, Potskhoetseri, Chkaduashi, Narazeni, Abashispiri – these are the villages where the IDPs are going to be moved to once again. The eviction and forceful displacement to the regions from 30 compact settlement places of Tbilisi was planned for December 26th, but as a result of the protest rallies and activity of civil society, the government stopped this process till January 15th.

Journalists quit the internet portal pressa.ge. The reason of quitting was named to be the assignment of the former journalist of Real TV Giorgi Kapanadze to the post of a director, according to the press conference held on December 20th.

“Georgian courts agree with the investigation
conclusions and sentence suspects to imprisonment without considering
any alternative punishments. They do not pay attention to the
personality of the accused, gravity of the imprisonment and other
circumstances,” said lawyer Besarion Bokhashvili at the presentation in
the Hotel Radisson yesterday.

Human Rights Center is concerned with the feasible mass
eviction of IDPs. In 24 collective centers of Tbilisi, the IDPs have
been informed that the buildings that they are currently living in are
not the places of compact settlements and thus cannot be intended for
long-term living.

Public Defender Giorgi Tughushi said the concrete facts
of physical assault and inhuman treatment of prisoners and detainees in
pretrial detention settings are not properly investigated that promote
the impunity syndrome among law enforcement officers.

On October 21, 2020, in Tbilisi, at the territory of
“Elsavaco” Ltd (so called “Lilo” marketplace) the market traders hold
the peaceful protest rally. They addressed representatives of political
union “National Forum” for assistance and support.Mr. Kakha Chakvetadze Deputy Head of partial control of p/u “National Forum”,was detained immediately after the incident by the law enforcement officers of Tbilisi Isani-Samgori Police office.

In the yard of Sameba Cathedral, the church will be
built blessed by Georgian Patriarch dedicated to Abkhaz and Georgian
warriors killed in the war. The idea belongs to IDP Congress and
Georgian Warriors Union. The planning of the church is being completed.
The construction will start in January and end in a year.